Merge pull request #9919 from 9999years/reduce-debugger-clutter

Reduce visual clutter in the debugger

(cherry picked from commit f388a6148dae0fc999f1a67d0b96d76788f9b97f)
Change-Id: I21bfe3e9f75816484b0f46dbe09e0ff40b22c6d9

doc/manual/rl-next/reduce-debugger-clutter.md

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+---
+synopsis: "Visual clutter in `--debugger` is reduced"
+prs: 9919
+---
+
+Before:
+```
+info: breakpoint reached
+
+
+Starting REPL to allow you to inspect the current state of the evaluator.
+
+Welcome to Nix 2.20.0pre20231222_dirty. Type :? for help.
+
+nix-repl> :continue
+error: uh oh
+
+
+Starting REPL to allow you to inspect the current state of the evaluator.
+
+Welcome to Nix 2.20.0pre20231222_dirty. Type :? for help.
+
+nix-repl>
+```
+
+After:
+
+```
+info: breakpoint reached
+
+Nix 2.20.0pre20231222_dirty debugger
+Type :? for help.
+nix-repl> :continue
+error: uh oh
+
+nix-repl>
+```

src/libcmd/repl.cc

@@ -232,10 +232,19 @@ static std::ostream & showDebugTrace(std::ostream & out, const PosTable & positi
     return out;
 }
 
+static bool isFirstRepl = true;
+
 void NixRepl::mainLoop()
 {
-    std::string error = ANSI_RED "error:" ANSI_NORMAL " ";
+    if (isFirstRepl) {
-    notice("Welcome to Nix " + nixVersion + ". Type :? for help.\n");
+        std::string_view debuggerNotice = "";
+        if (state->debugRepl) {
+            debuggerNotice = " debugger";
+        }
+        notice("Nix %1%%2%\nType :? for help.", nixVersion, debuggerNotice);
+    }
+
+    isFirstRepl = false;
 
     loadFiles();
 

src/libexpr/eval.cc

@@ -887,12 +887,10 @@ void EvalState::runDebugRepl(const Error * error, const Env & env, const Expr &
 
     if (error)
     {
-        printError("%s\n\n", error->what());
+        printError("%s\n", error->what());
 
         if (trylevel > 0 && error->info().level != lvlInfo)
             printError("This exception occurred in a 'tryEval' call. Use " ANSI_GREEN "--ignore-try" ANSI_NORMAL " to skip these.\n");
-
-        printError(ANSI_BOLD "Starting REPL to allow you to inspect the current state of the evaluator.\n" ANSI_NORMAL);
     }
 
     auto se = getStaticEnv(expr);